Nobel Prize

https://www.youtube.com/embed/PgekkKn7zmU Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2020. This year, the award ceremony was streamed. The laureates had received their medals and diplomas in their home countries due to the covid-19 pandemic.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/ieuZUQRkZBU Watch the Nobel Prize award ceremony from the Blue Hall at the Stockholm City Hall in Sweden on 10 December 2021. (pdf)

Swedish Presentationstal av författare Ellen Mattson, ledamot av ledamot i Nobelkommittén för litteratur, 10 december 2021. Eders Majestäter, Ärade pristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, Det finns en berättelse som berättas om och om igen i Abdulrazak Gurnahs romaner. Den handlar om en pojke som försvinner, rövas bort, säljs, sätts ut som Moses i vassen eller…

Ellen Mattson delivering the presentation speech for the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. © Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Dan Lepp English Presentation Speech by Writer Ellen Mattson, Member of the , Member of the Nobel Committee for Literature, 10 December 2021. Your Majesties, Esteemed Nobel Prize laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen A story is told again…

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Writing https://www.youtube.com/embed/JxveS-Kx_9I Abdulrazak Gurnah delivered his Nobel Prize lecture in literature on 7 December 2021. English © THE NOBEL FOUNDATION 2021General permission is granted for the publication in newspapers in any language after December 7, 2021, 5:00 p.m. CET. Publication in periodicals or books otherwise than in summary requires the consent of the Foundation. On…

Utdrag ur Den sista gåvan En dag I EN DAG, LÅNGT innan oroligheterna började, smet han i väg utan att säga ett ord till någon och vände aldrig tillbaka. Och så en annan dag, fyrtiotre år senare, föll han ihop alldeles innanför ytterdörren till sitt hus i en liten stad i England. Dagen var långt…

Curious about 2021 literature laureate but can’t decide which of his books to start with? We asked three members of the literature committee at the Swedish Academy – who decide on the year’s Nobel Prize in Literature – to give us their recommendations. Anne Swärd on By the Sea In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novels the protagonists…

The Nobel Prize award ceremony takes place at the Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, on 10 December – the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. At the ceremony, the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature and the prize in economic sciences are awarded to the Nobel Prize laureates. This year, the award ceremony was…